LETTER TO EDITOR
Year : 2011 | Volume
: 4 | Issue : 1 | Page : 58-
Not only seminal plasma zinc but also other trace elements affect semen quality
Viroj Wiwanitkit
Wiwanitkit House, Bangkhae, Bangkok, Thailand; and Visiting Professor, Hainan Medical University, Hainan, China
Correspondence Address:
Viroj Wiwanitkit
Wiwanitkit House, Bangkhae, Bangkok, Thailand
How to cite this article:
Wiwanitkit V. Not only seminal plasma zinc but also other trace elements affect semen quality.J Hum Reprod Sci 2011;4:58-58
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Wiwanitkit V. Not only seminal plasma zinc but also other trace elements affect semen quality. J Hum Reprod Sci [serial online] 2011 [cited 2022 Jun 27 ];4:58-58
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Sir,
I read the recent publication on seminal plasma zinc and semen quality in a subfertile population with a great interest. [1] Dissanayake et al. concluded that "Count, motility, viability, pH and viscosity are affected by variations of seminal plasma zinc. [1]" I would like to address some facts mentioned in this study. I agree that zinc level in semen has a relationship with fertility. However, this study is a kind of single parameter analysis. In a recent report, Zhang et al. proposed that the contents of trace elements in different body fluids are differently correlated with sperm quality. [2] Indeed, there are also many other trace element that can affect the quality of semen. For example, selenium level in semen is widely mentioned as having a strong relationship with semen quality. [3] To form a conclusion on this topic, it might be necessary to completely study the other trace elements that might be the confounding parameters that result in bias in interpretation.
References
| 1 | Dissanayake D, Wijesinghe P, Ratnasooriya W, Wimalasena S. Relationship between seminal plasma zinc and semen quality in a subfertile population. J Hum Reprod Sci 2010;3:124-8. |
| 2 | Zhang RS, Sun HJ, Zheng LW. Correlation of the contents of trace elements in male body fluids with sperm quality. Zhonghua Nan Ke Xue 2010;16:1019-22. |
| 3 | Camejo MI, Abdala L, Vivas-Acevedo G, Lozano-Hernández R, Angeli-Greaves M, Greaves ED. Selenium, copper and zinc in seminal plasma of men with varicocele, relationship with seminal parameters. Biol Trace Elem Res 2011 [in press]. |
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